XANDER
With a weary sigh, I clicked the red button to end the Zoom call and leaned back in my chair, letting the silence of the room settle around me. Lately, my days had been consumed with applying for a personal loan—an exhausting process that hadn’t exactly been smooth sailing. But little by little, things were beginning to move forward.
Thanks to some of my personal savings, I had managed to pull together enough money to kickstart production on at least half of the pending orders. It wasn’t everything, but it was a start—and right now, progress felt like a victory.
I reached for my phone, my fingers instinctively tapping on the w******p icon. I scrolled down to my chat with Amara. The last few messages I had sent her were still sitting there—read, but unanswered. It had been two day
